I work in advertising during the day and stand-up comedy at night. The jobs are surprisingly similar.

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Garron Chiu on stage doing stand-up comedy in Hong Kong.
By day, Garron Chiu works in advertising; by night, he performs stand-up comedy.

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I quit my job to scale my side hustle. I've earned over $800,000 in 5 years on Fiverr by raising prices and optimizing my profile.

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Harlan Rappaport
Harlan Rappaport.

Ed Fortunato

I was paying $3,000 to live in a cramped Seattle apartment. When I got laid off, I moved out and now live in other people's homes for free as a traveling pet sitter.

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Amber Campbell with one of the dogs she looked after.

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I've recruited for Amazon and Apple. Laid-off job seekers often make these mistakes when negotiating pay.

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Brian Fink
Recruiter Brian Fink says most women he interviews don't negotiate for higher pay

Matthew Wong

I left my corporate career to start a cleaning business 5 years ago. I still don't take a salary, but my family is doing much better off.

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A man wearing glasses, a gray baseball cap, and a red and blue shirt smiles for a selfie. He is standing on a grassy lawn with a driveway and trailer in the background.
Burgess Heberer started his business 5 years ago and 6 weeks later left his job to pursue it full-time.

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I run a business with my identical twin. We flex our twin connection and individual strengths to succeed.

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Leah Cohen-Shohet and her twin, Danielle, run a multimillion-dollar business together.

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AT&T salaries revealed: How much the telecom giant pays designers, software engineers, and other tech workers

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People walk past the AT&T store in New York's Times Square.

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I'm a high-school student who wants to be a coder. I'm betting some of my peers will rely too much on AI.

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Joshua Karoly
Joshua Karoly

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The H-1B has given me so many opportunities. But even after 12 years, my life in the US feels unstable and temporary because of it.

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Surbhi Madan
Surbhi Madan came to the US as a bachelor's student.

Surbhi Madan

An early member of Google's generative AI team says it's too late to get a Ph.D. to cash in on the AI hype

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Jad Tarifi, wearing a white shirt and suit, is posing in front of the Tokyo Tower.
Jad Tarifi, 42, joined Google in 2012 and spent nearly a decade with the search giant.

Jad Tarifi

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